Brochevarevarura

Brochevarevarura (transl.Who shall save the day?) is a 2019 Indian Telugu-language crime comedy thriller film written and directed by Vivek Athreya and produced by Vijay Kumar Manyam under the banner of Manyam Productions, featuring Sree Vishnu, Nivetha Thomas, Nivetha Pethuraj, Satyadev Kancharana in the lead roles while Priyadarshi Pullikonda, Rahul Ramakrishna play supporting roles.[2] The music was composed by Vivek Sagar while the cinematography was by Sai Sriram.[3][4]

Brochevarevarura
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVivek Athreya
Produced byVijay Kumar Manyam
Written byVivek Athreya
StarringSree Vishnu
Nivetha Thomas
Nivetha Pethuraj
Satyadev Kancharana
Priyadarshi Pullikonda
Rahul Ramakrishna
Music byVivek Sagar
CinematographySai Sriram
Edited byRaviteja Girijala
Production
company
Manyam Productions
Release date
  • 28 June 2019 (2019-06-28)
Running time
138 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu
Budget₹3 crore[1]

Plot

This film starts with Vishal (Satyadev Kancharana), an assistant director confirming to launch his debut film, for which he decides approach a star actress Shalini (Nivetha Pethuraj) for lead role. As his directorial debut being a low budget film and crew are mostly new to the industry, he could not find the contacts to reach out to the big stars. However, the Vishal manages to get Shalini's email and sends her a short film of his script. She's impressed by his pilot gives an appointment to hear his story. They meet in a restaurant where Vishal narrates his story.

The scene now moves to a high school college principal Radha Krishna (Srikanth Ayangar) taking his only daughter Mitra (Nivetha Thomas) to school. There she meets Rahul (Sree Vishnu), Rambabu "Rambo" (Rahul Ramakrishna), and Rakesh "Rocky" (Priyadarshi Pulikonda) famous as 'R3' batch who are last benchers and failing their grades for several years. One day they fool around and try to steal their answer sheets and make a fool of themselves in the Chemistry class. Mitra is like them, in the aspect that she doesn't have an interest in studying. Instead, she likes classical dance and wants to be a national level dancer. Her parents divorced when she was young and she chose to live with her mother. After her mother passed away she had no other option left to live with her father. She takes a liking to the R3 gang and starts hanging out with them. Disappointed by her low grades, her father decides to enroll her in a Math tuition class which is run by her father's best friend. Having no rapport with her father, Mitra decides to run away from home to pursue her career. R3 batch supports her decision, and she devises a perfect plan for them to execute. Later her Math teacher takes advantage of her and harasses her sexually. She is sad and tells her father about it, but he dismisses it as pathetic excuse for skipping tuition. Mitra is heartbroken, her father is unable to help her and this makes her question her insecurity. She hatches a fake plan to get herself kidnapped by R3 and use the money to learn dance and run away from home. The R3 gang follow the plan perfectly and secure 10 lakh rupees from Mitra's father. Later Mitra runs away from home and moves to Hyderabad for living her dream.

Meanwhile R3 gang bash the Math teacher on Mitra's behalf, and unknowingly injure an innocent person (later revealed as Vishal's dad). Meanwhile, Radha informs his cop friend Srinu (Harshavardhan) and asks him to investigate on R3. Srinu starts the investigation, but considers R3 as innocent. Mitra is excited to perform on stage and invites R3 to watch her performance. She forgets her phone while leaving for the dance studio. She is kidnapped again, this time by real thugs who are even willing to sell her for human trafficking. The thugs contact R3 for money as Mitra tells them that they are her only point of contact.The R3 batch is worried and decides to beg, borrow or steal money to save Mitra.

Vishal narrates half of the script to Shalini and promises to narrate the rest another day after making some minor developments. Later Shalini starts travelling with Vishal for the film, and falls for him. She introduces Vishal to some of the well known people in the film Industry and waits to propose to him for the marriage. Vishal receives a call from his mother, who tells him that his father was met with an accident. They need 10 lakh rupees for the surgery, and Shalini helps him out with the money. She gets the money from the bank by one of her agents, and drives Vishal to his father with the money. Meanwhile, Rocky sees this as an easy opportunity to get 10 lakh rupees for saving Mitra. They pelt a stone on Shalini's car in route, which leads to a car crash and steal the money. Rahul drops his phone which has the thug's contact on it at the crash scene (A mentally challenged person picks it up later). Vishal and Shalini are admitted to a local hospital and Vishal is hesitant to ask Shalini for more money for his father's surgery.

Meanwhile, the thugs try to contact Rahul but to no avail. Then they decide to sell her and start moving to pick up point. Rahul and Vishal realize that the phone was dropped at the crash site, both race to the crash site and deduce that the mentally challenged must've picked up the phone and start hunting for him in the city. Meanwhile, one of the thugs gifts Mitra's bag to his daughter. R3 and thug's daughter end up in the same auto-rickshaw and they realize that it is Mitra's bag. They investigate his daughter for his whereabouts and track him down. Meanwhile, Vishal manages to track down the mentally challenged and chases after him. They all run into each other and on realizing it try to disperse. Then Rahul contacts kidnappers to save Mitra but the kidnappers refuse his deal and delete his contact. While transporting Mitra to their place, Mitra creates havoc in the car of thugs which leads to hit into a motorcycle and end up creating a huge ruckus. This leads to the police trying to document the issue for insurance purposes. They are surprised to discover Mitra and save her.

Meanwhile, Vishal's sister informs Vishal that operation was completed successfully. He realizes that Shalini arranged the money again for his father, and He comes to thank her, then Shalini suddenly proposes him for marriage. Vishal is confused and Shalini promises to do his film even if he was not ready to accept her proposal. Vishal asks her for some time to think. Then they receive a parcel in the hospital which contains the 10 lakhs which was stolen by R3 initially.

Meanwhile, Srinu makes Radha realise on the mistakes he made while disciplining his daughter. Then Radha decides to get Mitra back and wholeheartedly apologize her. Later in a police station Mitra contacts Rahul to pick her up. But Rahul refused to come instead to call her father because they have realised they had done a big mistake. Her father is the correct person to handle the situation for setting right and Rahul hopes all for good. Then Mitra calls her father and Radha receives her warmly in the station.

Then finally the film ends with Radha supporting his daughter's decision by enrolling her in a classical dance academy and bashing his friend in front of his students along with Mitra. Mitra realised she fell for Rahul and proposes indirectly but Rahul did not understand her intention. Vishal starts his film with Shalini. Finally R3 gang discusses about their useless goals in life.

Cast

Production

In August 2018, the film was officially launched with Sree Vishnu as lead. Later, Nivetha Thomas confirmed herself being a part of the project. The production unit completed the first schedule by November 2018 and two Schedules in Guntur and Tenali. On 30 December 2018, the official title logo with all the cast members was announced on social media. The film wrapped up shooting in early March 2019 and was released on 28 June 2019.[5][6]

Soundtrack

Brochevarevarura
Soundtrack album by
Released26 June 2019
Recorded2019
StudioTapeloop
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length32:33
LabelAditya Music
ProducerVivek Sagar
Vivek Sagar chronology
Falaknuma Das
(2019)
Brochevarevarura
(2019)
External audio
Audio Jukebox on YouTube

The soundtrack is composed by Vivek Sagar and lyrics by Ramajogayya Sastry, Hasith Goli and Bharadwaj. The soundtrack is released by Aditya Music.[7]

Track list
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Vaale Chinukule"Hasith GoliSooraj Santhosh5:11
2."Putukku Zara Zara" (Traditional Lyrics from "Pannendu Metla Kinnera" written by Dr Shri D Dasari Ranga in Kalaa Telanganam)Hasith GoliAnthony Daasan, Balaji Dake4:32
3."Doragari"BharadwajVivek Sagar5:14
4."Talapu Talupu"Ramajogayya sastryVandana Srinivasa4:44
5."Vagalaadi"Hasith GoliVivek Sagar, Balaji Dake, Ram Miriyala, Manisha Erabathini4:23
6."Chalaname Chitramu"KKBhadra Rajin2:45
7."Brochevare"KKAnurag Kulkarni3:44
Total length:32:33

Reception

Critical reception

Y Sunita Chowdhary of The Hindu wrote "Director concentrates on his subject and makes no place for romance. Cinematography is a delight and Vivek Sagar’s music blends into the story. Despite a stereotyped role, Sree Vishnu steers the film with his middleclass looks and confidence".[8] The Times of India gave 3 out of 5 stars stating "Vivek Athreya’s film delivers. Vivek Sagar’s music too sets the mood right from get-go. Watch this one for the freshness and laidback-ness of it all and you will love it".[9] Idlebrain.com gave 3 out of 5 stars stating "Brochevarevarura is a decent kidnap drama!".[10] Sankeerthana Varma of Filmcompanion.in wrote: "An Entertaining Movie That Doesn’t Care Much About Form or Formula. Brochevarevarura populates itself with great characters and places them in circumstances where they can shine their eclectic light at us".[11] Brochevarevarura secured one among "25 Greatest Telugu films of the decade" in a survey conducted by Film Campanion.[12] It was also listed in the Top 7 best Telugu films of the year 2019 by IndiaToday.[13] Venkat Arikatla from Greatandhra gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "“Brochevarevura” is a pretty simple crime comedy that is peppered with interesting screenplay and offers some genuine laughs ".[14] Srinivas kanchibothla from Idlebrain wrote ""brOchaevArevurA" is a proud and welcome entrant into the pantheon of new age Telugu cinema, driven by content, clarity and confidence. Kudos!".[15]

Awards and nominations

Date of ceremony Award Category Recipient(s) and nominee(s) Result Ref.
11 January 2020 Zee Cine Awards Telugu Best Screenplay Vivek Athreya Won [16]
Best Comedian Priyadarshi Pulikonda Won
Rahul Ramakrishna Won
28 March 2020 Critics Choice Film Awards Best Film Brochevarevarura Nominated [17]
[18]
Best Director Vivek Athreya Nominated
Best Writing Won

Remake

Brochevarevarura is being remade into multi-languages. In Kannada it is titled as Govinda Govinda directed by debut director Tilak and produced by Shailendra Babu and Ravi R Garini, and stars Sumanth Shailendra, Bhavana and Kavitha Gowda.[19] The Hindi remake rights were bought by Sunny Deol, and his son Karan Deol as lead actor.[20]

References

  1. Chowdhary, Y. Sunita (24 September 2019). "What ails the Telugu film industry?". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  2. "Brochevarevarura a thriller comedy". www.thehansindia.com. 28 May 2019. Archived from the original on 24 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  3. "Jersey to Brochevarevarura: 7 best films of Telugu cinema in 2019". India Today. 29 December 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  4. "Best of Telugu cinema 2019: From 'Oh! Baby' to 'Mallesham', here are our picks". The News Minute. 29 December 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  5. "Brochevarevarura: Vivek Athreya's film to release on June 28". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 12 June 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  6. "Vivek Athreya directorial Brochevarevarura racing towards completion". 23 November 2018. Archived from the original on 24 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  7. "Vivek Sagar's 'Vagalaadi' from 'Brochevarevarura' will help you get your groove on! - Times of India". The Times of India.
  8. "'Brochevarevarura' review: Hop on for a fun ride". The Hindu. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  9. "Brochevarevarura Movie Review". Times of India. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  10. "Brochevarevarura jeevi review". Idlebrain.com. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  11. "Brochevarevarura Movie Review". Filmcompanion. 29 June 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  12. "25 Greatest Telugu Films of the Decade". Filmcompanion.
  13. "Jersey to Brochevarevarura 7 Best Films of Telugu Cinema in 2019". Indiatoday.
  14. Arikatla, Venkat (28 June 2019). "'Brochevarevarura' Movie Review: Brochevarevarura Movie Review and Rating {3/5}". greatandhra.com. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  15. "Some Ramblings - Brochevarevarura by Srinivas Kanchibhotla - idlebrain.com". www.idlebrain.com. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  16. "Zee Cine awards Telugu 2020: Samantha Akkineni, Chiranjeevi and Nani win top laurels". Hindustan Times. 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  17. "Critics Choice Film Awards 2020: Complete nominations list". The Indian Express. 2 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  18. "Critics' Choice Film Awards 2020: Complete winners list". The Indian Express. 28 March 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  19. "Sumanth Shailendra's Brochevarevarura remake titled Govinda Govinda". Cinema Express. 10 December 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  20. Adivi, Sashidhar (2 February 2020). "Karan Deol to star in Telugu film remake?". Deccan Chronicle.
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